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Git for Computer Scientists

Git for Computer Scientists
Abstract Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. Storage In simplified form, git object storage is "just" a DAG of objects, with a handful of different types of objects. They are all stored compressed and identified by an SHA-1 hash (that, incidentally, isn't the SHA-1 of the contents of the file they represent, but of their representation in git). blob: The simplest object, just a bunch of bytes. tree: Directories are represented by tree object. When a node points to another node in the DAG, it depends on the other node: it cannot exist without it. commit: A commit refers to a tree that represents the state of the files at the time of the commit. refs: References, or heads or branches, are like post-it notes slapped on a node in the DAG. git commit adds a node to the DAG and moves the post-it note for current branch to this new node. The HEAD ref is special in that it actually points to another ref. History

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